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his way through it; he reaches for the bent branch of a tree in order to lower himself into
Cockaigne. The fence enclosing the main scene behind the dozing trio is made of interwoven sausages. A partly eaten wheel of cheese and a bush (or tower) of loaves of bread are on the left and right of the scene, respectively.
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was a mythical land of plenty, but
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The arrangement of the clerk, peasant, and soldier underneath the tree suggests the men as the spokes of a wheel, where the tree is the hub. The roasted fowl lies in the place where a fourth spoke could be.
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143:Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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556:Adoration of the Kings
454:Netherlandish Proverbs
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243:stimulation
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174:Description
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375:(fig. 107)
261:References
231:oral stage
212:Ross Frank
85:Dimensions
516:Dull Gret
417:Paintings
155:Cockaigne
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339:, p. 78.
249:See also
239:pleasure
220:nobleman
192:gauntlet
160:gluttony
151:medieval
107:Location
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